At Emily's reaction Skander couldn't help but wince slightly. Yeah. He'd definitely not phrased that well. Obviously her back was now up. Which was the last thing he'd wanted. Skander knew that Emily wouldn't have cut wages unless she had too. But it wasn't great.

"Well, of course I'm not thrilled about it. I don't think anyone would be exactly thrilled about it," Skander replied with a frown. Really, who liked having their pay cut, especially when they had increasing expenses. "I understand the reasoning of course. You can't pay us with money you don't really have," he was quick to attempt to reassure. It was becoming obvious to him very quickly that this conversation was going nowhere near well. In fact he'd say it was going disastrously. Not that, that was Emily's fault. It was definitely his. He just didn't know how to phrase what he wanted to say without making things worse.

It had been a long time since Skander had told anyone he wanted to quit. An even longer time since he'd liked his boss as much as he liked Emily.